Yassou! Or G'day in Oz, we are now enjoying the liveliest of weather and locations on Paradise Island called Santorini, it is absolutely stunning. We arrive in the early hours of Saturday morning after a 3 hour plane trip to Athens leaving Heathrow at 10pm and landing in Athens their time at 4am! Then a short 30 minute flight to Santorini, unfortunately it was still dark coming into land so we couldn't see the true beauty of the place. We were picked up by our host of the villa we are renting and woke Katherine and Bryan up. The villa was superb, authentic white stone cave with a balcony overlooking the ocean. We had a very relaxed 1st day exploring the island in our rental car, then a beautiful dinner in the local traverna eating some ... read more

G'day Well the sun is shining this morning as I'm sitting out in a beautiful garden of the B&B we are staying at called 'The Old Manor House' just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. The house dates back to 1550 & it's just remarkable that we are actually staying in somewhere that is that old! We arrived in Stratford yesterday lunch time after another night in South Wales, then over the border back into England. Unfortunately the rain just hasn't stopped so it was nice to wake up this morning to some sunshine. We are taking an easy morning before heading out for a drive into the Cotswolds, Chipping Camden, Stow-on-the-wold and other interesting names. Last night we had a fantastic night at the Royal Shakespeare theatre watching Macbeth, wow it was absolutely brilliant. The home of Shakespeare of ... read more

Hello Well 2 weeks have passed already, we can surely say that the days aren't going by too quickly but trying to think back on what we have done so far is sometimes a bit of a blur.......probably due to the many pints of beer! It is interesting that not only in each town/village but even pubs within them have their own beer on tap so we have been trying out the local in each pub just to support them, we had a pint last night in a pub in York called the 'Mason Arms' that was selling ' Black Sheep' bitter that came in a very nice pint glass that we just had to take as a souvenir!! I had roast pork and Yorkshire pudding, lashings of gravy and veg, yum, I fear that my ... read more

Hi everyone Just a quick message to go with some photos. We are currently staying in York, arriving last night and have access to a laptop at the BB we are staying at. We had a great day looking around York and York Minster today, so much history and amazing sights. We are off on the road again tomorrow to Derbyshire staying 2 nights then to North Wales for another 2 nights. Today has been the first day for about a week with no rain and a little bit of sunshine so we made the most of that! Hope you like the photos, we wil keep the messages coming. Lots of love Ged and Michelle... read more

We've now made it to Blackpool, where I used to live 25 years ago, it now seems so small but I suppose I was younger/smaller then! It was fantastic meeting up with Katherine and Bryan and we had a walk down to the sea front last night and a wonderful dinner out, checking out the sights and the illuminations, certainly a blast from the past for me and good to show Ged where I used to live! Still trying to work out how to upload some photos and having some difficulties but will keep trying. Spoke to Mum and Dad on our night out last night while we were travelling along the prom on a tram, Dad used to work on the trams, but we were a bit disapointed that by the time we got on ... read more